[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 177943] [GTK][WPE] Add API to configure and enable resource load statistics

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177943

--- Comment #19 from Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Carlos Garcia Campos from comment #18)
> (In reply to Adrian Perez from comment #16)
> > (In reply to Carlos Garcia Campos from comment #14)
> > > (In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #10)
> > > > (In reply to Carlos Garcia Campos from comment #9) 
> > > >
> > > > > […]
> > > >
> > > > I wonder how we would expose this in Epiphany's preferences dialog.
> > > > Currently we have a simple tri-state policy: always accept, block third
> > > > party (default), never accept. I guess we could change it to a boolean
> > > > enable ITP or disable ITP setting. Probably Epiphany is not the right
> > > > browser to use if you're interested in disabling cookies entirely, right?
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't we just enable it unconditionally?
> > 
> > Do you mean in WebKit{GTK,WPE} or in Epiphany? I would have it enabled by
> > default on both. For WebKit, as long as ITP can be disabled using the API,
> > having it enabled by default sounds good to me—it's good to make defaults
> > lean towards the more secure or privacy-respecting settings, so developers
> > embedding a WebKitWebView in an application get the “best” settings without
> > needing additional work. Dunno if Epiphany can have the setting always-on,
> > but we could have a setting without checkbox in the preferences window and
> > try it out for a while before taking a final decision.
> 
> I meant epiphany, in WebKit it's probably better to keep it disabled by
> default to ensure backwards compatibility.

Right, that's true, we should keep ITP disabled for API 4.0 (GTK3); but maybe
we can make it enabled by default on the next API break ��️

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